Psychotherapies

Question 1

Who is psychoanalysis not indicated for?

Answer 1

people who have problems with reality testing such as psychotic patients or people with severe cluster A and B personality disorders

Question 2

When does Id present? Ego? Superego?

Answer 2

Id presents at birth, ego develops after birth, superego development begins at age 6

Question 3

is the aspect of one’s psyche that represents “morality, society and parental teaching” according to freud

Answer 3

superego

Question 4

unconscious, involves instinctual sexual/aggressive urges and primary process thinking

Answer 4

Id

Question 5

serves as a mediator between the id and external environment and seeks to develop satisfying interpersonal relationships; uses defense mechanisms to control instinctual urges and distinguishes fantasy from reality using reality testing.

Answer 5

ego

Question 6

Moral Conscience

Answer 6

superego

Question 7

A patient’s child recently died from ovarian cancer. as part of the grieving process, the patient donates money to help raise community awareness about the symptoms of ovarian cancer so other patients could potentially benefit from early intervention

Answer 7

Altruism

Question 8

Expressing unpleasant or uncomfortable feeling without causing discomfort to self or tohers

Answer 8

humor

Question 9

satisfying soically objectionable impulses in an acceptable manner (person with unconscious urges to physically control people becomes a prison guard)

Answer 9

sublimation

Question 10

Student who is angry at his mother talks back to his teacher the next day and refuses to obey her instructions

Answer 10

displacement

Question 11

physician dying from colon cancer describes the pathophysiology of his disease in detail to his 12 year old son

Answer 11

intellectualization

Question 12

women describes the recent death of her beloved husband without emotion

Answer 12

isolation of affect

Question 13

my boss fired me today because shes short tempered and impulsive, not because i have not done a good job

Answer 13

rationalization

Question 14

man who is in love with his married coworker insults her

Answer 14

reaction formation

Question 15

preventing a thought or feeling from entering consciousness

Answer 15

repression ( this is unconscious, whereas suppression is a consicous act0

Question 16

giving in to an impulse, even if socially inappropriate, in order to avoid the anxiety of suppressing the impulse (i.e man who has been told his therapist is going on vacation “forgets” his last appointment and skips it

Answer 16

acting out

Question 17

not accepting reality that is too painful

Answer 17

denial

Question 18

women brings her childhood teddy bear to the hospital when she has to spend the night

Answer 18

regression (performing behaviors from an earlier stage of development in order to avoid tension assoicated with current phase of development

Question 19

husband who is attracted to other women believes his wife is cheating on him

Answer 19

projection ( attributing objectionable thoughts or emotions to others)

Question 20

projection of unconscious feelings about important figures in the patient’s life onto the therapist (i.e patient who has repressed feeling of abandonment by her father becomes angry when her therapist is late for an appointment)

Answer 20

transference

Question 21

a stimulus can eventually evoke a conditioned resonse

Answer 21

classical conditioning (pavlov’s dogs)

Question 22

behaviors can be learned when followed by positive or negative reinforcement

Answer 22

operant conditioning

Question 23

giving a reward for a desired behavior

Answer 23

positive reinforcement

Question 24

encouraging a behavior by removing an aversive stimulus

Answer 24

negative reinforcement (punishment is NOT negative reinforcement)